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Mannes School of Music has transformed the traditional music conservatory by integrating rigorous classical training with real-world experience and cross-disciplinary learning. Work hands-on with award-winning faculty to develop as an artist at one of the best music schools in New York City.

As an artist in the 21st century requires more than just technical mastery. It requires entrepreneurial agency, improvisation, real-world experiences and cross-disciplinary projects. An education at Mannes combines all of these things to ensure that students can have a life in the arts and impact society through their work.

Our faculty of professional and active musicians represents all areas of the music world-concert artists, chamber musicians, successful freelancers, established composers. These award-winning teachers become mentors, working hands-on with students to develop their talent.

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Peter Evans

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Peter Evans is a trumpet player, and improvisor/composer based in New York City since 2003. Evans is part of a broad, hybridized scene of musical experimentation and his work cuts across a wide range of modern musical practices and traditions. Peter is committed to the simultaneously self-determining and collaborative nature of musical improvisation as a compositional tool, and works with an ever-expanding group of musicians and composers in the creation of new music. His primary groups as a leader are the Peter Evans Ensemble and Being & Becoming (with Joel Ross, Jordon Morton and Max Jaffe). In addition, Evans has been performing and recording solo trumpet music since 2002 and is widely recognized as a leading voice in the field, having released several recordings over the past decade. He is a member of the cooperative groups Pulverize the Sound (with Mike Pride and Tim Dahl) and Rocket Science (with Evan Parker, Craig Taborn and Sam Pluta) and is constantly experimenting and forming new configurations with like minded players. As a composer, he has been commissioned by the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Yarn/Wire, the Donaueschingen Musiktage Festival, the Jerome Foundation's Emerging Artist Program, and the Doris Duke Foundation. As a teacher/lecturer, Evans has visited, among other institutions, the University of California in San Diego, the Birmingham Conservatoire, Cornish College, The Juilliard School, the Manhattan School of Music, Mannes College of Music, Northwestern University, the Hochschule für Musik Köln, and the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. He has worked with some of the leading figures in creative music and performs with both ICE and the Wet Ink Ensemble. He has been releasing recordings on his own label, More is More, since 2011.

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